Announcing the FaunaDB Extension for Visual Studio Code

Lewis King Feb 26, 2020

We are pleased to announce the FaunaDB extension for VS Code. This extension allows users to browse their FaunaDB databases, indexes, collections, documents, and functions from right inside of the VS Code sidebar. Users are also able to edit their FaunaDB documents from within VS Code and run Fauna Query Language queries within VS Code against their FaunaDB database.

What is VS Code?

VS (Visual Studio) Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. VS Code is free and developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It includes support for debugging, built-in commands for Git, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and customization via extensions.

Then paste the secret key into the Secret Key field, and reload VS Code.

faunadb.secretKey: Your database secret.

Warning: Be careful! To avoid exposing this secret, do not commit it to your local .vscode configuration.

Features

FaunaDB: Create Query

FaunaDB: Run Query

Browse database

With this extension, you can browse the databases, indexes, collections, documents, and functions associated with your FaunaDB database right inside of the VS Code sidebar.

Run queries

In addition to browsing your data, this extension also allows you to run FQL queries against your FaunaDB database.

Benefits for users of VS Code and FaunaDB

Using the FaunaDB extension for VS Code, users can access FaunaDB directly from the editor, a faster alternative to visiting the FaunaDB Dashboard in a web browser.

VS Code users have a new NoSQL database option with all of the unique benefits that FaunaDB offers, including 100% ACID transactions. They can use FaunaDB as a stateful component of their apps with ease and avail of its generous free tier. Databases are available for use instantly: no additional provisioning is necessary within FaunaDB, making for seamless serverless development experience. Globally distributed data ensures that data is close to where your users are, thus enabling snappy user experience for your apps

Finally, documents created via the extension can be managed via FaunaDB Dashboard as well as FaunaDB Shell and VS Code extension for hassle-free use.

Conclusion

With this extension, users are able to browse their FaunaDB databases, indexes, collections, documents, and functions from right inside of the VS Code sidebar.

What other integrations would you like to see implemented in FaunaDB? Please reach out to me on Twitter or our Community Slack and describe any other features that would make FaunaDB and Netlify an obvious choice for your next project.

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